Hot as Hades

Man I take back everything I said about Mountain View being hot. Holy crikey it's hot in LA. Right now it's about 10:45 pm and it's still like 88 degrees. 88 degrees at NIGHT. Wow, I'm sitting in my parents living room in just a tube dress and I'm sweating. The fan is on and everything. Yeesh. Anyway, what the hell have I been up to?

Wednesday - work, then headed to City Beach for a mini work off-site! Yay!! It was SUPER hot in there but it was really really fun. To explain, City Beach isn't really a beach. It's an indoor sports facility. So they had volleyball courts, basketball courts, ping pong, pool, bocce ball, foosball, and indoor rock climbing! We were there from about 1-4 and then went to the local bar for a bit. After the bar, I met up with Phill to borrow his big backpack.

City Beach Off Site 8/29/07

Thursday - work, a few meetings, left work at 3:30 pm and headed down to LA! I got gas and washed my car in one of those automated things and hit the freeway. I hit traffic on the way down through San Jose, but the drive was traffic-free the rest of the way. WEE! I stopped once to use the bathroom, then stopped again to eat a quick burger at Carl's Jr and get gas. I got home around 10 pm and then just spent the night doing laundry.

Friday - woke up around 10 am, drove over to Susie's house around 11, got Coffee Bean (yum!), then drove out to South Coast. I was the navigator but I kept getting Susie lost. Oopsie! Sorry Sooz. Hehe, but we finally made it to the Costa Mesa rack! Yay!!! I got lots of fun stuff... I got a really cute jersey/cotton tube dress, a really cute stripey tube dress from To The Max (BCBG), and two pairs of cute underpants. After having a "snack" at Boudin's, we walked around Best Buy, then left to meet up my family for dinner. We had Italian food at Lascalia's or something in Whittier and then after dinner, Susie and I went to Old Town for PINKBERRY *yum, I got a REALLY cute thick grey jacket (even though it's hot as hell here, I can wear it in SF), and we walked around Urban. Now it's about 11 pm and I'm going to head to Dave n Buster's to hang out with Alan and David, I haven't seen either of these guys in like 3+ years. Interesting.

A whole entry dedicated to shopping...

I figured the last entry was too long, but I still wanted to talk about all the crap I've bought. So here we go.

Things I've Bought:

Target - white gauzy shirt, white tank top, brown cotton skirt

Nordstrom 5/25 - Clinque makeup remover, boycut Seven jeans, really cute flats (but in bronze, not black), and a cute brown floral/butterfly bag that I wanted to use as a carry-on bag.

Sephora - Stila lip gloss in apricot, Stila's introduction to foundation kit, a pencil sharpener

Metropark - a really cute black Volcom sundress to wear to my sister's graduation (below is the back view of the dress)

Urban - cute Lux printed tank top (it's a really cute aqua/brown print), cheapy long sleeve green shirt

Nordstrom 5/28 - Nars eyeshadow in Nightstar (a really peachy light sparkly eyeshadow), Nars blush in Deep Throat (niiiice. I think either Sooz or Ellen has this color too... it's a really sparkly pinky color!)

Borders - Baby Proof by Emily Griffin

Lazy Sundays, Take Three

Ahhh. Lazy Sundays. What I been doing all day? I woke up at like 8 am for some random reason then forced myself back to sleep till about 10:30-ish. I figured since I'm awake I can do a few loads of laundry *Yay clean clothes for Vegas! Then after my laundry was done, I hit up the car wash so I can get rid of all that sap and crap on my car. The car wash guy told me that I need the "Full Detail Wash" which was $150 because my car was so disgusting. I don't think so. It's a corolla. Yeesh. So I compromised and got the $50 express wax wash thingy. My car looks pretty clean and it's actually never been waxed. But honestly, I probably could've gotten the same effect with the $20 regular car wash. Whatever. Not doing that again.

After the car wash I headed to Stonestown Mall and ate Boudin's for lunch. Again. Yum. But this time I got the Chinese Chicken Salad which is probably my most favoritest salad... and not only because I am Chinese. After lunch I tried this nail place in the mall and got a mani/pedi. The pedicure was nice and the manicure was OK. I think it's better than the cheapy place I usually go downstairs because they have a better selection of nail polishes and they have the cool massage chairs. But the actual polishing of my nails was only subpar. I a tiny air bubble on one of my nails and there are a few nails that were a tiny bit sloppy. But oh well.

After my mani/pedi I decided to randomly walk around the mall to see if I can find anything to buy. I went to AE (nothing), JCrew (nothing), BR (nothing), and then finally went to Gap. I found a cute plain grey cotton dress that was on sale for $20 so I got that. I'm going kinda shopping crazy with dresses lately. Maybe because dresses are so comfy. Hmmm... I hope this isn't a path where I'll eventually be buying muumuus and weighing 800 lbs. Yikes.

After the mall, I went to Bed Bath and Beyond to find a plain duvet cover to go with my new quilt! *yay. I bought a light green colored duvet which should hopefully match the quilt, for only $50. Niiice. And now I'm doing another load of laundry for my new duvet covers and another load for my towels, etc. making it four loads of laundry today. Wow... that's a lot of laundry. Anywhoo, now I'm just sitting at home after spending 30 minutes on the phone with my mom trying to persuade her to try gmail instead of aol and then it turns out my dad doesn't enable cookies on his computer so she can't access gmail anyway. Argh.

So! I'm reading this book called Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes. And it's pretty damn sad. You just really feel sorry for the main character. I was reading the book while getting my pedicure and I almost started crying. I had to stop reading otherwise I would get a lot of weird stares. Hopefully I'll finish the book by Vegas time so I can let Sooz read it. Ok. I guess I'm done for now. I should really get out more. Hm.